Washington, D.C., November 15, 2016 – The Board of Directors of SIFMA announced that it has elected several directors to leadership positions on the Board for 2017.  The new principal officers include:

Chair:

Timothy C. Scheve, President and Chief Executive Officer, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

Chair-Elect:

Lisa Kidd Hunt, Executive Vice President, International Services and Special Business Development, The Charles Schwab Corporation

Treasurer:

James Wallin, Senior Vice President, Fixed Income, AB

The full SIFMA 2017 Board of Directors is available at the following link:  http://www.sifma.org/about/board-and-officers/

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SIFMA is the voice of the U.S. securities industry. We represent the broker-dealers, banks and asset managers whose nearly 1 million employees provide access to the capital markets, raising over $2.5 trillion for businesses and municipalities in the U.S., serving clients with over $20 trillion in assets and managing more than $67 trillion in assets for individual and institutional clients including mutual funds and retirement plans. SIFMA, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., is the U.S. regional member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). For more information, visit http://www.sifma.org.